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The statistical bell‐shaped curve is named for Carl Friedrich Gauss, the acclaimed German mathematician who derived its mathematical equation. The two major theories of chromatography both deduce that all the peaks in the column should be Gaussian in shape.

Thus, our ideal peaks in Figure 2.9 are perfectly symmetrical. Unfortunately, real peaks are not perfect, and they may be slightly or grossly asymmetric due to other mechanisms occurring in the columns or in the instrument itself.